Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo

“A beautiful and very important book.”―Lewis Wolpert, American Scientist

For over a century, opening the black box of embryonic development was the holy grail of biology. Evo Devo―Evolutionary Developmental Biology―is the new science that has finally cracked open the box. Within the pages of his rich and riveting book, Sean B. Carroll explains how we are discovering that complex life is ironically much simpler than anyone ever expected.

• The Making of the Fittest: DNA and the Ultimate Forensic Record of Evolution
• Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
• The Plausibility of Life: Resolving Darwin’s Dilemma
• Ecological Developmental Biology: The Environmental Regulation of Development, Health, and Evolution
• The Serengeti Rules: The Quest to Discover How Life Works and Why It Matters - With a new Q&A with the author
• Developmental Biology
• At the Water's Edge : Fish with Fingers, Whales with Legs, and How Life Came Ashore but Then Went Back to Sea
• From DNA to Diversity: Molecular Genetics and the Evolution of Animal Design
• The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design
• The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself